Otto_West
August 21, 2017, 11:56pm
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A Christopher Columbus monument in Baltimore was vandalized overnight on Monday by protesters rallying against “hate-filled monuments,” the Baltimore Brew reported.
Protesters smashed a hole in the monument, rendering its inscription, “Sacred to the Memory of Chris. Columbus Oct. XII MDCC VIIIC,” unreadable, the Brew reported. The destroyed monument was accompanied by signs reading “Racism: Tear it Down” and “The future is racial and economic justice.”
Located across from Baltimore’s Herring Run Park at the corner of Harford Road and Walther Avenue, the 44-foot tall obelisk is one of three Columbus monuments in Baltimore, with two others located in Druid Hill Park and the city’s Little Italy neighborhood.
The now-destroyed monument is the oldest Columbus monument in the city — and North America. It was first erected in 1792 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival in North America, the Baltimore Sun reported.
The monument’s destruction was captured on a video uploaded to the YouTube channel “Popular Resistance” on Monday, in which the protesters are seen smashing the monument with a sledgehammer as a voiceover narration explains the rationality behind the act of protest.
“Christopher Columbus symbolizes the initial invasion of European capitalism into the Western Hemisphere,” the video’s narrator says. “Columbus initiated a centuries-old wave of terrorism, murder, genocide, rape, slavery, ecological degradation and capitalist exploitation of labor in the Americas. That Columbian wave of destruction continues on the backs of Indigenous, African-American and brown people.
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Otto_West
August 22, 2017, 12:26am
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[u]When the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, the first thing they did was to start destroying monuments to the tsars and replace them many times over with monuments to Communist revolutionary heroes. [/u]
One of the first victims of this campaign was the great monument to tsar Alexander III, which was removed from its pedestal on Ploshchad Vosstaniya.
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Otto_West
August 22, 2017, 12:34am
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Otto_West
August 22, 2017, 12:37am
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Faust
August 22, 2017, 12:47am
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So, the Bolsheviks destroyed monuments, therefore those who destroy monuments are Bolsheviks.
All white supremacists should be embarrassed.
But white people do rule in the U.S. That might change, but not soon. Trump won.
White people are doing a great job, every day. A white supremacist is just someone who was born on third base but runs toward second.
Otto_West
August 22, 2017, 1:01am
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Faust:
So, the Bolsheviks destroyed monuments, therefore those who destroy monuments are Bolsheviks.
All white supremacists should be embarrassed.
But white people do rule in the U.S. That might change, but not soon. Trump won.
White people are doing a great job, every day. A white supremacist is just someone who was born on third base but runs toward second.
Don’t worry, I’ve seen your posts. I’ll reply to all of them in kind.
Also, ANTIFA historically is a communist organization. This is fact and is not up for debate.
Otto_West
August 22, 2017, 1:03am
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Faust
August 22, 2017, 1:22am
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So, you guys are afraid of communists? Seriously?
I guess maybe you should be…
Regular people are not. Regular people fear inflation.
Otto_West
August 22, 2017, 1:27am
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Faust:
So, you guys are afraid of communists? Seriously?
I guess maybe you should be…
Regular people are not. Regular people fear inflation.
Considering what they have done in China, Russia, Cuba, Spain, Ukraine, and other countries of the world once achieving state power, yes I would say they are of some concern. Did you fall asleep in history class? Shall we go through list after list of communist atrocities here?
I would hardly classify you a regular person.
Otto_West
August 22, 2017, 1:34am
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Faust:
Otto_West:
In the 1970’s my family grew up in a city in the United States that was dominantly German and Polish. In the 1990’s the neighborhood where my family grew up became displaced by Mexican immigrants. In fifteen years it went from being a neighborhood that was majority German and Polish to completely being Mexican. That means in fifteen years population displacement was 100%.
What happened to the indigenous Germans and Polish immigrants of the neighborhood? Some moved to other cities but most fled into rural American small towns.
Now as I speak even the rural towns are no longer safe in isolation as they’re slowly being absorbed by the same foreign migrant urban centers. This is where integration and multiculturalism fails in its so called mission statement of preserving diversity.
In the city where I grew up, in my childhood, we had French Canadian, Italian, Lebanese and Portuguese neighborhoods. The remnants of Polish and Irish. The catholic parishes were still ethnic. While we still have many people of Portuguese descent, we don’t really have ethnic neighborhoods any more.
So what?
Multiculturalism doesn’t mean that each group has its own neighborhood or its own town. I’m not sure about the rest of the country, but in the Northeast, groups of immigrants arrive and are displaced - mainly because they scatter as subsequent generations feel more “American” than previous generations.
Again, so what?
“Safe in isolation” - really? What is the great virtue of “isolation”? What is an “indigenous Immigrant”?
America is not a place where you get to sublet forever.
Wait a second, I thought multiculturalism was all about the celebration and preservation of diversity. This seems contrary to the assimilative integration and absorption you’re promoting here. You can’t have it both ways. Different cultures and races thrive in isolation opposed to all out assimilation, balkanization, and absorption.
America was created by Europeans concerning its institutions,laws, government, constitution, and state.
The nebulous terminology of America you’re using is quite different than mine.
Faust
August 22, 2017, 1:36am
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Of c course you can. Stop thinking in absolute and static terms for a minute. It’ll do you good.
Faust
August 22, 2017, 1:38am
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Otto_West:
Faust:
So, you guys are afraid of communists? Seriously?
I guess maybe you should be…
Regular people are not. Regular people fear inflation.
Considering what they have done in China, Russia, Cuba, Spain, Ukraine, and other countries of the world once achieving state power, yes I would say they are of some concern. Did you fall asleep in history class? Shall we go through list after list of communist atrocities here?
I would hardly classify you a regular person.
Communism is kaput everywhere that counts. Despotism survives.
Otto_West
August 22, 2017, 1:39am
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I’ll agree that all centralized governments are despots including communist ones.
Faust
August 22, 2017, 1:44am
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Otto_West:
Explain.
Use any label you want. The American experience is that of people from all over the place coming here to live. It’s like a giant university. There are still ethnic ghettos and various racial enclaves. And there are places where one diaspora after another has deposited people after transporting them from their original foothold.
The children of immigrants learn English and go to school and keep the food choices but look for a home with more bathrooms. And they “intermarry” (gasp!).
Jus’ sayin’…
You should read The Sneetches, by Dr. Seuss. That will break it down for you.
Faust
August 22, 2017, 1:45am
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Democracy can be despotic when everything is going so well that no one really cares.
Which is what is going on right now.
Even the ACLU looks good right now.
Remarkable.
